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Greece: The weather is nice and warm. And the people are lovely. I love swimming there.
Nepal: I like the purity of soul of the people there. They’re the nicest, most direct, most un-neurotic people that I’ve ever met anywhere in the world.
Switzerland: Switzerland was grand.
Cyprus: The food was wonderful. The people were wonderful. The sun was wonderful. And the sea was wonderful. Cyprus is a lovely place.
Brazil: I was lucky enough to go there a couple of years ago. The thing that impressed me most of all were the people and how friendly they were.

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A. a few hundred meters off the coast of; 64,000; 8,000
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1. The population of Skye is getting smaller. Its young people are being tempted by mainland life and the chance of better pay.
2. His plan is to build a bridge linking Skye with the mainland. He thinks this will bring new work to the island and stop people from going away from their homes.
3. They think that the bridge will bring too many tourists to Skye and take away the island’s independence and character.
C. C

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parks, museums and shops, in the center of, farther out, 450, in the 16th century, in 1835
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St. Jame’s Park: close to Buckingham Palace and the government offices in Whitehall; very attractive with a long, narrow lake, which is occupied by ducks and other water birds
Green Park: very close to the palace, very bare
Hyde Park: no location given; famous for the Serpentine, a lake; and for Speaker’s Corner
Richmond Park: in the southwest of London; There are still deer there
Kensington Gardens: next to Hyde Park; very popular with both the old and the young; On warmer days there are always people at the Round Pond, where they come to sail their model boats.
Regent’s Park: no location given, famous for its lake and its flowers, as well as for the London Zoo; There is also an open-air theater, where the public can see many of Shakespeare’s plays in the summer months.

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A. questions
1. They are in the desert in southern Peru near the Nazca City.
2. The lines were discovered in the early 1930’s
3. Because the forms were so big, they were difficult to see from the ground, only visible from the air. They were not discovered until aircraft flew over this region.
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37 miles long, 1 mile wide, straight lines, parallel, strange symbols, on a giant scale, 200 B.C., 600 A.D.

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Task 10
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How did New York become America’s largest city?; geography, history, economics, Northeast, heavily, seaports, meet, raw materials, finished goods, 1815, the ports, the central regions of the country, the best solution, 1825, were cut to about one-tenth of what they had been, the leading city of the coast, the railroads, tied, even more closely, Exports, imports, were eager to, as a result, receiving people from European countries, homes, goods, services, labor

Task 11 dictation
London is one of the biggest cities in the world. It has a population of over 8 million. Some people like it very much because there is a lot to do there, and it is very interesting. There are hundreds of cinemas, theaters, museums, and restaurants there. But other people don’t like it because there is so much traffic and noise everywhere. Brighton is a medium-sized town with a population of around 300,000. It is on the coast, about 50 miles from London. Of course, it isn’t as interesting as London, but the air is a lot cleaner and better. There are a few factories, but not many. It isn’t very easy to find a good job there. But there are a lot of hotels and language schools in the town, and in the summer the town is full of tourists.